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Re: Basement Pit

Re: Basement Pit

There is a chimney but about 5-6' to the right, the current boiler is on the basement floor level next to the hole. Too bad the pit is filled with with dirt and broken block. I guess they need to dig it up to see what is at the bottom. My thought was perhaps a pit for working on cars but currently the house has no grade level entry so I guess Al Capone's vault will have to do

Re: Basement Pit

for those of you who watched the first 4 minutes, you watched 3 minutes and 58 seconds more than i did. The title alone was enough to ppresent the joke. which is what it was and what the post was leading towards.
Lighten up a little.
It's been a weird year
here's one you might understand

Chanowski & his other Polak drinking buddy are sitting at a bar . " See those guys over there ? " Chanowski says. " I'm going over there and ask them what they think of Polaks. " Chanowki walks up to the two guys sitting at the other end of the bar and asks them what they think of Polaks. One of the men gives Chanowski the finger. The middle finger. Chanowski then walks back to his drinking buddy. " Well , what do they think of Polaks? " he asks. "We're still number one , " replies Chanowski.

Re: Basement Pit

Suspect a relationship with former coal-fired cast original equipment may or may not have been converted to fuel oil or gas after or initial post war installation, return air or vitrified air trench pit (always longer than the appliance itself). Suspicions better confirmed, if when debris removed a sloped (upwards long-wise, that is the T side towards the o/s wall is deeper than the equipment side narrower side) base or floor of the air pit/air trench is found.

Did you see evidence of patched subfloor for a larger area above the deeper "T" end of the pit for a nearby (floor grate return) source and/or patched for housing former chase (could have been, and likely would have been unlined) to a wall cavity above for the first and/or second floor perhaps a floor or hallway wall grate, for example? The usual subfloor of that vintage would have been sawn lumber planks on 45s to joists.

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